Opening the Door Further: Integrating Students with Complex Health Care Needs.

Lehr, Donna H.; McDaid, Pat

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Publication Date: 1993

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Opening the Door Further: Integrating Students with Complex Health Care Needs.

Lehr, Donna H.; McDaid, Pat

Focus on Exceptional Children, v25 n6 p1-7 Feb 1993

This paper discusses issues related to educating children dependent on medical technology. It examines the movement toward greater normalization for these children, the use of transdisciplinary teams to develop specific plans addressing the students' unique health care and educational needs, and possible curricular and classroom accommodations. (JDD)

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mainstreaming, Medical Services, Normalization (Handicapped), Social Integration, Special Health Problems, Student Needs, Teamwork

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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